OBITUARIES

ARIIOIII HARYEY REYSA

' Arnold Ilarvey "Art" Reysa, for the past 24 years a salesman for Mason Supplies' Inc. in Los Angeles, died Feb. 19.

He wis born in Cedar R^apids, Io'wa, in 1896 and had been in sales for California Portland Cement Co. before joining Mason Supplies.

Mr. Reysa was a member of the Carmelita Lodge in Pasadena of the Free & Accepted Masons. He was a member of the MarS Club and the Old Timers and was voted Man-of-the-Year by the Mars Club.

' Surviving him are his widow, Jessie, of their Sherman Oaks, Calif., home and a son, Donald 8., of Dallas, Tex.

LAWRENCE C. CROWDEN

Lawrence C. Crowder, manager of The Austin Company's forest products division in Seattle, 54, died January 26, of a heatt attaek.

A native of McNary, La., Mr. Crowder joined Austin in 1967 after 26 years in engineering positions with leading companies in the pulp and paper industry, inbluding 10 years as chief engineer of the SL Regis Paper Company's central engineering div. , He is survived by his widow, Earline, amd five children: Mrs. Thomas Diekmann, of Ellington, Conn.; L. Carl Crowder Jr., of Orlando, Fla.; Mary Kate, t2; William, 10; and James,4, the latter three at home.

SHARLES B. CRllSS, SR.

Charles B. "Charlie" Croeg Sr., prominent civic and industry leader and head of Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., died at his Dollar Point, Calif., home March 2, of a sudden heart attack. He was 65.

Mr. Cross was a member of one of California's oldest lumber families with roots going back well into the last century. A native of Hanford, Calif,, Mr. Cross spent his early years in San Francisco where his father operated Cross Lumber Co., then located in the rough and tumble Embarcadero District, Later, the family moved to Merced, the home of Cross Lumber Co. today, where he finished high school. He then enrolled at Stanford University.

After completing his freshman year, his uncle, G. X. Wendling (president of a corporation that owned, among other things, the first sawmill and box factory at Truckee, Calif.), got him a job as an ordinary seaman on a freighter going around the world. After 8 moiiths on the high seas he returned to complete his courses in economics and journalism.

Following his graduation, he moved to St. Paul, Minn., where he worked for a construction finaneing firsn, later transferring to the Los Angeles area. In 1932, he rejoined Cross Lumber at Coalinga, Calif., and a few years later moved into the wholesale end for Santa Fe Lumber Co.

During 1940, Mr. Cross accepted an opening as manager of Auburn Lumber's Tahoe City retail outlet. In 1941 he entered the Army as an intelligence officer with the field artillery, first in Europe and later in the South Pacific.

He returned in December, 7945, and in 1950 became owner of the two yards at Tmckee and Tahoe City. He also was vicepresident of Cross Lumber in Merced, Calif.

Mr. Cross was a civic leader, a past president of the Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce, an ardent Rotarian and a long standing director of the Lumber Merchants Association and general chairman of LMA's forthcoming Lake Tahoe annual convention.

I{e is survived by his widow, Sylvia; a son, "Chal" of Tahoe City; daughters Sally Vance of Kings Beach, Calif., and Ann Van Lewin of Vancouver, B.C.; a sister, Iangie Burton, and a brother, Marion Cross, both of Merced.

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